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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. ↗

— Howard Carter

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The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security. ↗

— William Cavendish

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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ↗

— George Chapman

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

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No one is free who does not lord over himself. ↗

— Claudius

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗